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Hey all, I have a question. Currently my keg fridge is only big enough for one keg and a CO2 tank ($40 craigslist find). I am OK with this, but my wife and I are throwing a party in May, and of course I am making the beer. I am OK with bottling one batch and kegging the other, but if I can use both of my kegs that would be even better.

If I carbonate one keg in my fridge then move it to say a 60-68 degree room whilst the other keg carbonates for a week, is that going to cause some issues with the carbonation in the first keg? Serving I'm not worried about because the kegs will be in a tub of ice.

If you could find some way to ice it down to completely chill the keg approx 24 hours before serving- that'd place you in an optimal position. I've kept beer cold for a long time just by swaddling the keg in heavy blankets and sleeping bags.

Otherwise it won't hurt the beer to let it get room temp. But it is easier to keep a cold keg cold in your situation, rather than have to rechill a keg.

My two keg kegerator is a mini fridge. I had to remove the inside plastic liner from the door. I used some aluminum strap to build reinforcement for the magnetic strip, and carved a bit of the insulation foam in the door. I took a box knife and cut the plastic liner inside the fridge and carved some foam there too. Just where needed to squeeze in two kegs. Now two kegs and a five pound CO2 bottle fit nicely.

Have we switched to regular fridge size already off the OP? :o Anyway, I could only lay a keg sideways in my regular 21"After measuring I think 12 kegs will fit in my fridge with no modification if they are laid on their sides facing the door. Still don't have the real lagering capacity, and there's a bottleneck. Makes me want to shop for fridges.

Modifications are fine and dandy if one has no plans to sell something like a small fridge, but plans change. That's always a factor with this hobby. The answer is to buy a bigger fridge... ;)